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A spotlight on some recently acquired physical and electronic books in the collection.

New Books: October 2026

The following are new books added to the Laurier Library.  The lists will be updated monthly. The titles below are selections and not a full list of the new titles. 

New electronic books in the Laurier collection
Anthropology
Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Biology

No new eBooks

Business
Chemistry

No new eBooks

Communication Studies
Computer Science and Physics
Criminology
Cultural Studies

No new eBooks

Economics

No new eBooks

Education
English and Film Studies
Geography
Global Studies
Health Sciences

No new eBooks

Health Studies

Ageing, Sex and Disability : New Aesthetics and Critical Perspectives./ Edited byRicardo Iacub, Paul Simpsonand Trish Hafford-LetchfieldWith a foreword byBrian de Vries

Critical Perspectives on Smartphone Addiction / Richard James, Lucy Hitcham.

Ethics and the Environmental Health Profession : The Importance of Being Ethical./ Stephen Battersby and David Miles

Financing Health and Social Care : Bringing Health Economics Back into Public Policy / Cam Donaldson.

Get It Out : On the Politics of Hysterectomy./ ANDRÉA BECKER

Global Health in Fragments : Saviourism, Community, and Experimentation in Zambia./ James Wintrup

Governing in a Pandemic : Democratic Backsliding in the Middle East and North Africa / Edited by Anis Ben Brik.

HPV vaccination discourse online : a corpus linguistic approach / Isobelle Clarke, Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, William Dance, Tara Coltman-Patel, and Richard Gleave.

Healthcare Privatization Through Neoliberal Newspeak : The Case of Sweden and Beyond / John Lapidus.

Immunization ecosystem : perspectives and strategies / Jaishri Jethwaney and Pritu S. Dhalaria.

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Medical Knowledge : Safeguarding Healing and Medical Practices in a Globalized World.

Languages, Cultures, and Health in a Global City : Translating and Communicating Covid-19 among London's Multilingual Communities./ Lutz Marten and Nana Sato-Rossberg

OLD BEFORE THEIR TIME : a scientific life investigating how maltreatment harms children... and the adults they become.

Reimagining Aid : Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / Mary-Collier Wilks

Social capital in healthcare : how trust and teamwork drive organizational excellence / Thomas H. Lee.

Social murder? : austerity and life expectancy in the UK / David Walsh and Gerry McCartney.

Socially Wired : How Culture Shapes Our Brains / Matthew W. Schelke

Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners : Fractured Patient Care Systems in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe./ Roxane E. Richter, Thomas M. Flowers,Elias K. Bongmba, and Ananya K. Admasu

Universal health coverage : foundations and horizons / Tuba I. Agartan.

Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America / Kira Ganga Kieffer.

Why Black People Die Sooner : What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It. / Joseph L. Graves Jr.

History
Human and Social Sciences

No new eBooks

Indigenous Studies
Kinesiology and Physical Education
Martin Luther University College

No new eBooks

Mathematics
Medieval and Medievalism Studies

No new eBooks

Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion and Culture

No new eBooks

Social Work

No new eBooks

Society and Environmental Justice
Sociology
Women and Gender Studies

No new eBooks

Youth and Children's Studies 

A Care Manifesto for the Early Years : The Need for an Ethic of Care in Childcare Policy and Practice / Zoe Raven.

A Practical Companion to Children's Literature Studies : Conducting Research and Building a Career / edited by Kimberley Reynolds, Matthew Grenby and Emily Murphy.

Adolescent-to-parent abuse : current understandings in research, policy and practice / Amanda Holt.

Adultism : A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children / Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade.

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire / Sharon N. Tran.

Becoming Evangelical : Life and Liminalities in Christian Youth Groups.

Beyond screen time guilt : the role of TV and video in early child development / Cary Bazalgette.

Breaking Families, Making Families : Adoption and Child Welfare in the 1990s / Mical Raz.

Children in Minority Faiths : Religious Liberty and State Control./ Edited by Susan J. PalmerWith a foreword by Eileen Barker

Constructing American childhood : age-based laws and the illusion of protection in the early United States / Holly N. S. White.

Extra! Extra! : a history of America's girl newsies / Autumn Lorimer Linford.

Girls, Unlimited : How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money / Monique Couvson.

I Guess This Is Activism? : Youth, Political Education, and Free-Market Common Sense./ Kevin L. Clay

In Her Arms : Love and Legacy of Black Mothers and Daughters / Edited by: Eboni-Rai Mullings, Olasumbo Adelakun, Delores V. Mullings.

Laboring in the shadows : precarity and promise in Black youth work / Bianca J. Baldridge.

Marked by time : how social change has transformed crime and the life trajectories of young Americans / Robert J. Sampson.

Media Parenting : Theory and Research on Parent, Child, and Media Interactions / Eric E. Rasmussen.

On Top of the City : Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg.

Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods : International Research on Children's Voice and Agency./ Edited byPallawi Sinha, Sarah Richards and Marianna StellaWith a foreword byAlison Clark

Sugarcoated Ethics : Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement / Courtney Weikle-Mills.

The Grandparent Effect : Helping Children Thrive Through Love, Support, and Connection / Kristen J. Amundson.

The everyday lives of children who have experienced domestic abuse : looking beyond the trauma lens / Brenda Herbert.

Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences: Underage Viewing Memories and Practices in 1980s United Kingdom / Peter Turner.

We Have Come to Be Destroyed : Growing up in Cold War Britain / Laura Tisdall.

What They Stole : A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption / Paige Towers.

When Children Imagine God : Conversations with Church Kids / J. Bradley Wigger.

New print books in the Laurier collection
Anthropology
Archaeology and Heritage Studies

No new print books

Biology

No new print books

Business
Chemistry

No new print books

Communication Studies
Computer Science and Physics

No new print books

Criminology

A hymn to life : shame has to change sides / Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver.

Ctrl+ Alt+ Chaos : How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet / Joe Tidy.

Dark screens : hackers and heroes in the shadowy world of ransomware / Anja Shortland.

Forensic aspects of driver perception and response / David Krauss.

Fraud Examinations by Corporate Investigators : Alternative Policing at Internal Reviews / Petter Gottschalk.

Gender-based violence in the Caribbean : historical roots, contemporary continuities / edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd.

Inside SNC-Lavalin : How Crime & Politics Almost Killed a Great Canadian Company / Lawrence Stevenson.

Mafia : a global history / Ryan Gingeras.

The Chinese phantom : the hunt for the world's most dangerous arms dealer / Christoph Giesen, Philipp Grüll, Frederik Obermaier, and Bastian Obermayer ; translated by Simon Pare.

The Northern Bank Job : The Heist and How They Got Away With It / Glenn Patterson.

The lighthorse police : a history of tribal justice / Donald L. Fixico.

The price of mercy : unfair trials, a violent system, and a public defender's search for justice in America / Emily Galvin Almanza.

The science of second chances : a revolution in criminal justice / Jennifer Doleac.

They Kill People : Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood revolution, and America's obsession with guns and outlaws / Kirk Ellis.

Thin blue rage : the police countermovement / Andrew Crosby & Jeffrey Monaghan.

Who's allowed to protest? / Bruce Robbins.

Cultural Studies

No new print books

Economics

No new print books

Education
English and Film Studies
Geography
Global Studies
Health Sciences

No new print books

Health Studies

No new print books

History
Human and Social Sciences

No new print books

Indigenous Studies
Kinesiology and Physical Education

No new print books

Martin Luther University College
Mathematics
Medieval and Medievalism Studies

No new print books

Music

No new print books

Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion and Culture
Social Work

No new print books

Society and Environmental Justice

No new print books

Sociology
Women and Gender Studies

No new print books

Youth and Children's Studies

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